Arguments

The project you wish to query ("wikiquote"), if appropriate.
Should be provided in conjunction with language.

domain

as an alternative to a language and project combination,
you can also provide a domain ("rationalwiki.org") to the URL constructor, allowing
for the querying of non-Wikimedia MediaWiki instances.

namespaces

The namespaces to consider pages from. By default, pages from any namespace are
considered; alternately, a numeric vector of accepted namespaces (which are described
here) can be
provided, and only pages within those namespaces will be considered.

as_wikitext

whether to retrieve the wikimarkup (TRUE) or the HTML (FALSE).
Set to FALSE by default.

limit

the number of pages to return. 1 by default.

clean_response

whether to do some basic sanitising of the resulting data structure.
Set to FALSE by default.

...

further arguments to pass to httr's GET.

See Also

page_content for retrieving the content of a specific page,
revision_diff for retrieving 'diffs' between revisions,
revision_content for retrieving the text of specified revisions.